isn't real
Can you show me this actually in use literally anywhere on earth for this job, 125 years later?
Where would I go to buy some atmosphere derived gasoline?
You're confusing that something could theoretically be done with that it's a real thing that can be relied on today at scale to save the planet
If this was a real, practical thing, it would be in use. We fight wars over this stuff.
If the thing you want to use to save the world hasn't been done at scale, you probably can't get it there in the ten years we have left.
In all of history, only one of these has ever been made at the megawatt scale. Audi built one in 2013. They took it down three years later because it didn't actually work. It was supposed to provide fuel for 1300 cars, but it couldn't produce 1/10 of what it was supposed to
Yes, I see that you can find things in search engines
No: this is not a real option for saving us from climate change
That's why no one is making it at scale.
We're rapidly expanding renewable production at an amazing pace, as the article discusses, but we are very much still in the "stop burning fuels and directly electrify processes instead" stage, because that is currently cheaper even without including long term externalities, so even in lawless or suicidal nations self-interest makes it happen.
But the relatively small markets that fossil fuels will retreat to as electrification takes hold will soon be under threat too, for purely economic reasons adding extra impetus for change to happen.
Most of those will just use hydrogen directly, further reducing the market for gasoline, but again even gasoline will be replaced with renewable derived fuels for whatever obscure uses we still have for it, because it will be cheaper.
You're saying that yes, we can economically make gasoline from the air today, and that the reason we don't is all the renewable production we're ramping up?
That everyone just decided not to sell carbon negative cheap gasoline?
I guess it's silly to ask why you believe that we can do this, based on no plant ever having been built with tens of billions of incentives available, huh? Probably can't get any evidence?
I don't think we're going to be able to see eye to eye on this. Thanks for the conversation
What we're discussing is people using search engines to identify mechanics. This is not a thing that has been built.
This is an idea, not a real thing.
You haven't shown any actual examples of this having been built.
We can see that Wikipedia page, sure, but there are lots of Wikipedia pages for things that were never built. Those are not real things. It has to have existed to be real.
It's kind of wild having to explain what the word "real" means.
If these devices are real, can you show me one that actually exists or existed, instead of Wikipedia pages talking about what they would be?
The page referenced does not mention any real ones.
It seems like you're making claims that they are real, to respond to someone asking for examples, and didn't give any examples
I have to admit, it's pretty exhausting how solar fans always end up relying on devices that have never been built to explain why they're the right choice
